Monthly Archives: December 2017

The London Amateur Radio Club (LARC) announces the availability of a CW course and sessions of kit building. Both should be fun to participate in, if you are interested, then this should be a good way to get better at code, and dust off those kits, it is now time to dig those old kits out of storage and get them built.

CW Course

Requests for a CW course, to get the participant up to a workable 20 wpm, have been answered. Mitch Powell, VE3OT and long time CW instructor, will begin a CW course on Thursday, January 11th, 2018, starting at 19:00 EST (location to be announced). Several classroom sessions will be supported by nightly on air CW practice sessions. If you don’t have an 80m CW receiver, see the announcement below on kit building. The Koch method of CW instruction may be helpful to you and free software is available at g4fon.net

Kit Building Sessions

Want to learn how to put together a radio kit, but are concerned your soldering or toroid winding skill could use some improvement? Have a kit you started years ago and want to finish someday? Need a simple CW receiver for off air code practice? These sessions, conducted by knowledgeable hams every Saturday morning starting at 10:00 EST on January 13th, 2018, and held at the LARC Club station, will help you get over any hurdles, advise how to build and test any project you decide to tackle. You may wish to build something simple, or something complex, pretty much anything! Type “Radio Kit” into a Google search and see how much choice is out there. Our first session might just be about making an intelligent choice!

Meetings

Club Monthly Meeting

Monthly meetings (Sept-June) are held on the 1st Tuesday of the month at the Elgin Regiment - 40 Wilson Ave. St.Thomas ON in the
Officers Mess (use East entrance, up the stairs to the Officers Mess) from 7:30 - 9:00 pm. Parking is available in the main parking lot off Chester Street.

Club Repeaters

VE3STR at 147.330, 224.780 and 443.825, 114.8 tone input

CF31CER

CF31CER is now QRT. In September 2016, a total of 320 contacts were made, using this special call.

To get a QSL for your contact, please email us at CF31CER@gmail.com, send us your call and contact number.